In-hive pollen transfer between bees enhances cross-pollination of plants
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1 In-hive pollen transfer between bees enhances cross-pollination of plants J. Paalhaar, W.J. Boot, J.J.M. van der Steen* & J.N.M. Calis Laboratory of Entomology, Wageningen University, PO Box 803, 6700 EH Wageningen, The Netherlands, *Applied Plant Research (PPO), Bee Unit, PO Box 69, 6700 AB Wageningen, The Netherlands In-hive transfer of pollen was studied by analysing the pollen on the bodies of young in-hive bees and foraging bees of the same honeybee colony. The colony was placed and opened in a bee-tight greenhouse with flowering carrot, celery and endive, and samples of bees were taken in the course of one day. The density of pollen on the bodies of young bees inside the hive rapidly built up to about 0.5 % of that found on the foragers on each of the three plant species. A similar amount was apparently transferred to the foragers. Therefore we conclude that in-hive transfer of pollen between honey bees enhances cross-pollination of plants. Keywords: Apis mellifera, cross-pollination, pollen, in-hive transfer Plant species have different strategies to attract insects for pollination. Selfincompatible plant species need pollinators, like bees, for seed production. Selfcompatible plants may use pollinators to achieve cross-pollination. When bees visit flowers, pollen adheres to their hairs and may stay there for a long time, depending on the characteristics of the specific pollen grains (Free & Williams 972). While bees fly from flower to flower, transfer of pollen leads to cross pollination (Roubik 999). In social bees, like honey bees Apis mellifera L., the individuals usually focus on specific patches of flowers. Pollen may be transferred from a forager to other bees in the hive by brushing against each other, or because all bees reside in the same pollen-contaminated hive (Free & Williams 972). Bees of one hive forage on different patches of flowers that can be more than nine kilometres from the hive in every direction (Beekman & Ratnieks 2000). Different bees from one hive may simultaneously visit patches of plants of one species that are flowering many kilometres from each other. In theory, transfer of pollen inside the hive from one forager to another forager may therefore lead to cross-pollination over distances unequalled to pollination by other insects. PROC. NETH. ENTOMOL. SOC. MEET. - VOLUME
2 SOCIAL INSECTS Several studies on fruit-set in self-incompatible plants suggest that in-hive transfer of pollen enhances cross-pollination, but leave unanswered to what extent (Dag et al. 200, DeGrandi-Hoffman et al. 992). In other studies, bees inand outside the hive were analysed instead of the pollinated plants. These studies showed that pollen was transferred between bees, but it was unclear where the pollen came from and if the pollen were still viable and could lead to pollination (Free & Williams 972, Hatjina et al. 998). The purpose of this study is to determine to what extent in-hive transfer of pollen may contribute to cross-pollination. We studied the distribution of previously inexperienced pollen over foraging bees and young in-hive bees of one honeybee colony in the course of one day. Pollen on bees was quantified to gain insight into in-hive transfer of pollen from foragers to other bees in the colony. MATERIALS AND METHODS A bee-tight greenhouse with three flowering crops, carrot, celery and endive, was used as an experimental set-up. At 8:00 a.m. a bee colony (ca. 2,000 individuals) was placed and opened inside the greenhouse. The first samples of bees were taken directly and they showed that the pollen of the three plant species indeed were absent on the bees at the beginning of the experiment. More samples of bees were taken in the course of one day, every two hours, from young bees inside the hive (n=20), water foragers and foragers from the flowers of the three crops (n=). To examine whether pollen stayed overnight on the bees, another sampling of young bees (n=20) was done at the beginning of the next day prior to bee flight. All bees were sampled individually and were put in Eppendorf tubes and stored in a freezer until analysis of the pollen. Division of labour inside a colony depends on age of the bees (Seeley 995). Young bees start performing tasks inside the hive, whereas older bees explore the environment. To obtain marked young in-hive bees, emerging bees were collected and marked from various intervals prior to the experiment. As a result, four different cohorts of bees with the age of -2 days, 8-9 days, 5-6 days and days, had different colours on their thoraxes at the day of the experiment. Marked bees were returned to the original hive, except for the young bees of two days old. These newly emerged bees had had no contact with their other nestmates before the experiment started, at which moment they were released into their original hive. Together with the marked bees with an age of 8-9 days, these bees formed the group of young in-hive bees, because they were not observed flying outside the hive. Older marked bees were observed to be foraging. Bees landing during five minutes on the landing board of the hive were counted every two hours to get an impression of the foraging population. To determine the pollen density on the bees body hairs, the stored bees were brought on room temperature and the pollen was collected as follows. Firstly, the hind legs of foraging bees were cut off to prevent that pollen in the corbicu- 54
3 J. PAALHAAR, W.J. BOOT, J.J.M. VAN DER STEEN & J.N.M. CALIS lae would be analysed. The bees were individually sonified for seconds in.0 ml of a mixture of ethanol, water and detergent (% vol./vol. Triton-X in a 70% ethanol solution) with a Sonifier B-2, micro-tip level 3. After removing the bees the tubes with the ethanol solution were centrifuged for 3.5 minutes on level 4 (*0 min-). The supernatants were discharged, and 50 μl distilled water was added to the pellet of pollen in each tube. Tubes were shaken for minute in the highest rotation (vortex) to ensure a homogeneous distribution of pollen in the solution. Then 8 μl from each tube was dropped with a pipette on a haemocytometer slide, Neubauer improved, and analysed with a Euromex-microscope. When the density of pollen in the solution was low, for example in the samples of young bees, the number of pollen grains on the total slide grid (3.6% of the 50 μl) was counted, and the type of pollen was determined. When samples with a high density of pollen were analysed, for example samples of foragers, only.0% or.8% of the solution was analysed. The pollen of endive, carrot and celery could easily be distinguished from each other. The total number of grains in the original pollen precipitate of each tube was derived under the assumption that the analysed solution was representative for the whole sample. Note that part of the pollen remained on the bees body. After repeating the procedure three times with test samples we deduced that on average 67% of the pollen on the bees were collected after one sonification. Other loss of pollen was limited because no pollen could be found in the supernatants after centrifuging. Additionally, hardly any pollen (2%) was found when tubes were shaken again to resuspend pallets that had possibly stayed behind. RESULTS The bees foraged between 8:00 a.m. till 9:00 p.m. The period with the highest activity was around noon (Fig. ). Integrating the counts on the landing board we calculated that approximately 25,000 forage flights were made during the day. # foragers coming back to hive :00-8:05 :00- :05 2:00-2:05 4:00-4: :00-6:05 8:00-8:05 20:00-20:05 22:00-22:05 Time Figure. Activity of foragers measured as number of bees landing on the landing board during 5-minute-intervals.
4 SOCIAL INSECTS In-hive bees Water foragers Number of pollen grains per bee + (logarithmic scale) ND Foragers from male-sterile carrot ND Foragers from celery ND Foragers from carrot ND Foragers from endive ND Time (hours of the day) ND carrot celery endive Figure 2. Number of pollen grains from carrot, celery and endive in a greenhouse, on samples of bees taken in the course of a day from young in-hive bees (n=20), water foragers and foragers from the three crops (n=). The colony was introduced from outdoors and the bees were released at 8:00 a.m. Two hours after foraging started, celery and endive pollen was found on young bees that stayed inside the hive, -2 days and 8-9 days old. Carrot pollen was found in the next sample, two hours later. Hence, pollen was transferred from foragers to bees inside the hive. Pollen numbers varied during the day, but both on foragers and young bees there was no clear build up of pollen over time (Fig. 2). Foragers that were taken from a flower carried on average about 3500 pollen grains from that plant (Table ). The pollen numbers on young bees will depend on how many bees are foraging on the flowers. In our setting, 9 to 8 56
5 J. PAALHAAR, W.J. BOOT, J.J.M. VAN DER STEEN & J.N.M. CALIS Table. Average numbers of pollen grains on foragers on a specific crop and on young bees (in brackets the numbers on young bees as percentage of the numbers on foragers). Crop species Average number of pollen grains on Foragers (n=60) Young bees (n=40) Carrot (0.3%) Celery (0.4%) Endive (0.7%) pollen grains were found on average per plant species, which is about 0.5% of the numbers found on the foragers (Table ). Note that the young bees acquired pollen from all three plant species. Celery pollen was most abundant on the bodies of foraging bees. Numbers of endive pollen were relatively low. Foragers also had pollen from the plants they were not collected from. In the case of foragers from carrot with male-sterile flowers and endive, these numbers were similar to the numbers found on young bees (Fig. 2). This suggests that these foragers specialized on one type of flower. Foragers from carrot with male flowers and celery apparently switched between flowers, because high numbers of both types of pollen grains were found. The next morning, pollen of both carrot and celery were still found on young bees. Endive pollen were absent on these bees (Fig. 2). Pollen grains other than from the three crops were also found on the bodies of foraging bees and to a lesser extent on young bees. Even the newly emerged bees from the incubator carried some pollen grains. Especially the small-sized pollen of sweet chestnut was abundantly found. These pollen grains must have been acquired before the start of the experiment and could still be found on young bees the next morning. DISCUSSION This study shows that pollen carried by foragers to a honeybee colony is transferred rapidly among the honey bees inside a hive. Within two hours of foraging activity on previously inexperienced plant species, young bees inside the hive had acquired significant numbers of pollen. Related to the numbers of pollen on a forager collected from one of the three plant species in the greenhouse, about 0.5% could be found on the young bees. Foragers may have acquired all three types of pollen by flying directly to the respective flowers. The numbers of pollen found indeed suggest that bees switch between celery and carrot. However, bees foraging on male-sterile carrot and endive seem specialized, because numbers of strange pollen types are similar to the numbers on the young bees, suggesting transfer inside the hive. 57
6 SOCIAL INSECTS Pollen may adhere for a long period on a bee s body. The size of the grains seems an important factor defining how long pollen grains can be found. The bigger endive pollen was absent on young bees on the next morning, whereas the smaller celery and carrot grains were still present. Moreover, many chestnut grains were found. These grains are relatively small compared to the other grains, and they must have been acquired in the days before the experiment started. How long pollen grains remain viable on the bee s body is unknown and probably varies for different pollen species. This viability will be important for cross-pollination through in-hive transfer of pollen. However, even if pollen remains viable for only a few hours, in-hive transfer may lead to cross-pollination, because transfer between bees seems to be fast. Different bees from one hive may simultaneously visit patches of plants of one species that are flowering many kilometres from each other. As in-hive transfer of pollen takes place at a significant level, transfer of pollen from one forager to another forager can lead to genetic contacts between plants over distances unequalled to pollination by other insects. Additionally, in hybrid-seed production plots, where individual bees may specialize on different strains of one plant species, in-hive transfer of pollen enhances effectiveness of honey bees. Acknowledgements Rijk Zwaan Breeding B.V. is greatly acknowledged for facilitating the experiment by allowing the use of one of their greenhouses used for breeding. REFERENCES Beekman, M. & Ratnieks, F.L.W Long-range foraging by the honey-bee, Apis mellifera L. Functional Ecology. 4(4): Dag, A., Degani, C. & Gazit, S In-hive pollen transfer in Mango. Acta Horticulture. 56: DeGrandi-Hoffman, G., Thorp, R., Loper, G. & Eisikowitch, D Identification and distribution of cross-pollinating honey-bees on almonds. Journal of Applied Ecology. 29: Free, G.B. & Williams, I.H The transport of pollen on the body hairs of honeybees (Apis mellifera L.) and bumblebees (Bombus spp.). Journal of Apicultural Research. 9: Hatjina, F., Free, J.B. & Paxton, R.J Hive-entrance pollen transfer devices to increase the cross-pollination potential of honey bees. I. Examination of six materials. Journal of Apicultural Research. 37: Roubik, D.W The foraging and potential outcrossing pollination ranges of African honey bees (Apiformes: Apidae; Apini) in Congo Forest. Journal of the Kansas Entomological Society. 72(4): Seeley, T.D The wisdom of the hive. The social physiology of honey bee colonies. Harvard University Press, London. 58
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